| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: He took the ribbon out of the box, smiled at it scornfully, then with
a pair of scissors cut out a piece from the palm of the glove.
"I shall make him a thing like those Italian peasants wear, you know."
He sewed the coin in the delicate leather, sewed the leather to the
ribbon, tied the ends together. He worked with haste. Karain watched
his fingers all the time.
"Now then," he said--then stepped up to Karain. They looked close into
one another's eyes. Those of Karain stared in a lost glance, but
Hollis's seemed to grow darker and looked out masterful and
compelling. They were in violent contrast together--one motionless and
the colour of bronze, the other dazzling white and lifting his arms,
Tales of Unrest |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: and planted many rowans (mountain ashes) around his hut, as a
certain defence against necromancy. For the same reason,
doubtless, he desired to have rowan-trees set above his grave.
We have stated that David Ritchie loved objects of natural
beauty. His only living favourites were a dog and a cat, to
which he was particularly attached, and his bees, which he
treated with great care. He took a sister, latterly, to live in
a hut adjacent to his own, but he did not permit her to enter it.
She was weak in intellect, but not deformed in person; simple, or
rather silly, but not, like her brother, sullen or bizarre.
David was never affectionate to her; it was not in his nature;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: wanness had overspread the emaciated fingers through which
trickled many passionate tears.
The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill
of her physicians. A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of
the person, and frequent although transient affections of a
partially cataleptical character, were the unusual diagnosis.
Hitherto she had steadily borne up against the pressure of her
malady, and had not betaken herself finally to bed; but, on the
closing in of the evening of my arrival at the house, she
succumbed (as her brother told me at night with inexpressible
agitation) to the prostrating power of the destroyer; and I
The Fall of the House of Usher |
